Never Had it So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles

Never Had it So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles

Dominic Sandbrook

£14.99

David Edgar writes:

As Dominic Sandbrook points out in Never Had It So Good, the first
volume of his monumental history of Britain since 1956, big guns like
Norman Tebbit continued to lambast ‘the insufferable, smug,
sanctimonious, naive, guilt-ridden, wet, pink orthodoxy of that sunset
home of the third-rate minds of that third-rate decade, the 1960s’.
Three years later, Thatcher blamed the 1960s for ‘“the block
mentality: tower blocks, trade-union block votes, block schools” and
the insidious cult of “breaking the rules”’.